Peter Mortier (35 results)

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Condition: New. In 2004, the opera scene was taken by storm by the ground-breaking production of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde in Los Angeles. This book offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the visionary American artist Bill Viola created four hours of video as a visual complement to this profound psychological drama. It also tells the story of its commissioning by the then Paris Opera director Gerard Mortier, who pushed the boundaries of what opera could be by inviting a trinity of California-based creatives to re-imagine a Tristan und Isolde for our times. Having just opened the now iconic Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, this was a bold project for the Los Angeles Philharmonic to take on, but it was one which catapulted them into the world of music and breath-taking visuals. The fully staged opera that resulted has been seen in Paris, Toronto, Madrid, Tokyo, Kobe, and concert versions in LA, New York, Rotterdam, London, Helsinki, Stockholm, and St Petersburg, and the revolutionary four-hour video and visuals created by Bill Viola to accompany this opera lives on through this beautifully illustrated book. Distributed for Mercatorfonds.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 128 pages. 11.26x8.90x0.67 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: New. In 2004, the opera scene was taken by storm by the ground-breaking production of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde in Los Angeles. This book offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the visionary American artist Bill Viola created four hours of video as a visual complement to this profound psychological drama. It also tells the story of its commissioning by the then Paris Opera director Gerard Mortier, who pushed the boundaries of what opera could be by inviting a trinity of California-based creatives to re-imagine a Tristan und Isolde for our times. Having just opened the now iconic Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, this was a bold project for the Los Angeles Philharmonic to take on, but it was one which catapulted them into the world of music and breath-taking visuals. The fully staged opera that resulted has been seen in Paris, Toronto, Madrid, Tokyo, Kobe, and concert versions in LA, New York, Rotterdam, London, Helsinki, Stockholm, and St Petersburg, and the revolutionary four-hour video and visuals created by Bill Viola to accompany this opera lives on through this beautifully illustrated book. Distributed for Mercatorfonds.

Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 562 | Sprache: Französisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sealed in plastic but has a few scratches/rips.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 562 pages. French language. 9.69x7.17x1.26 inches. In Stock.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine binding. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. A clean copy. Text in French. Dustjacket is clean and bright. Fine binding / Fine dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: colored, condition: Binding in leather embossed in gold, size (in cm): 26,5 x 20,5 cm, 2 volumes with many decorative representation of famous turkish people and history in french language. Volume I, descfription on 453 pages with index.eight 1/2 page representations and 4 folded copper prints. Volume II, description on 537 pages with index. 1 totla mview of Constantinople, 16 1/2 pages representation of famous people of Turkey and 2 folded copper prints. The atlas also has many decorative colored capital letters and title pages. Togther two volumes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Second. Two volumes in one. "Paris: Chez Hubert Iaillot Ioignant les Grands Augustins aux deux Globes" [but Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier], 1696-1700. Broadsheet folio (23 13/16" x 19 7/8", 604mm x 505mm): 9 letter-press leaves, pp. [4] (Nouvelle introduction title, blank, Introduction title, preface), 1 2-16 (16pp. introduction); 2 (lives of ancient hermits, blank = "147"). With 147 engraved plates: an engraved title-page and an engraved frame for the table (with letterpress table pasted in), 2 double-page engraved tables, 19 engraved tables, 93 double-page engraved maps, 30 engraved maps, and 1 folding map -- all (save one chart (39: "Echelle geographique") and one double-page map (43: "Plan de la Ville. de Paris")) with hand-color. Lacking the map of Namur; else collated complete against the list of maps. Bound in XIXc crimson half calf over red cloth. On the spine, seven raised bands. Title, author (Sanson) and date (MDCC) gilt to black calf in the second panel. Scuffed generally, with bumps to the extremities. Extensive marginal losses to the front-matter, and a large repaired loss to the final map (150, the Gulf of Venice). Map 115 (Austria) with two filled half-inch holes; map 136 (Danube) shaved at the head, 147 (letterpress lives of ancient hermits) with old fraying and loss at the fore-edge. Additional map of Northumberland (London: C. Smith; January 6th, 1802) pasted to the rear-paste down, with losses. A little soiled generally, but altogether a sound copy. With ink numeration in an old hand to the verso of most plates. Pieter Mortier (1661-1711; pron. "more-tear" rather than "more-tee-ay") was the son of a French refugee who, after a brief stint in Paris, worked in Amsterdam as an engraver, mapmaker and bookseller; his illustrated bible is one of the great lavish works of engraving. While the Dutch largely dominated the XVIIc market for atlases, Jaillot, who had at his disposal the stock of Nicolas Sanson, was an exception; Mortier's ingenious solution (with his partner Marc Huguetan) was simply to copy and to undercut him. Although Pastoureau concedes that there may in fact have been an agreement between Mortier and Jaillot, she deems the present work a piracy or "contrefaçon:" "toutes les planches sont gravées entre la fin de 1690 et le début de 1692. . . au début de 1692. . . les associés se partagent les cuivres et conviennent que chacun peut alors tirer autant de cartes qu'il veut. . ." ("all the plates were engraved between the end of 1690 and the beginning of 1692. . . at the beginning of the 1692. . . the partners share the copperplates and agree that each of them can print as many plates as they wish," Pastoureau p. 234). The present copy is the second Mortier edition, with considerable changes to what maps are included. Most telling, perhaps, is the map numbered 76: a 1695 map depicting the encampments of the French army in the Low Countries. Though Dutch piracy of books published elsewhere is common for much of the history of European printing, the circumstances of the present work's creation are striking. Nearly all of Europe -- the Grand Alliance, of the Hapsburg lands, the Dutch Republic, England, Spain and Savoy -- had banded against France in the Nine Years' War (1688-1697). Thus the copying of the encyclopedic French Atlas nouveau by the Dutch is an act of cartographic espionage. The organization of the atlas makes it uncommonly useful for the planning of military actions. The disingenuity of the work began before Mortier; Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712) claims responsibility for the work both as the dedicator to the Dauphin and as the publisher, but all but three of the maps in the initial 1681 edition were in fact the work of his late predecessor, Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667). The work is nevertheless the first appearance of the word "atlas" in the title of a French book of maps. Pastoureau I E 1696 contrefaçon hollandaise.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. THE WARDINGTON COPY -- FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE ARCHITECT JAMES GIBBS. Mortier: Paris: Hubert Jaillot, 1693 [but Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1693]. First issue of the Amsterdam edition. de Hooghe: Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1693. Broadsheet (25" x 19 3/4", 634mm x 503mm). Bound in contemporary Dutch mottled calf. On the boards, a central gilt vignette of Atlas bearing the world (as an armillary sphere) surrounded by scrollwork. Two gilt roll borders, the inner with corner-ornaments of armillary spheres. On the spine, eight raised bands. In the panels, armillary spheres gilt. Title gilt to black calf in the second panel. Gilt roll to the edges of the boards. All edges of the text-block speckled red. Rebacked, with the original back-strip laid down. Scuffed and chipped generally but mildly, with bumps and some wear to the extremities. Oxidizing and offsetting throughout, entirely consistent with original color. Repaired throughout with archival tissue in places where the oxidation has weakened the paper. Portrait bookplate of James Gibbs (dated 1736) to the front paste-down. Early ownership signature in ink of "P: Jackson" to the recto of the first free end-paper. Bookplate of Lord Wardington on the rear end-paper. In all, a lovely solid copy of a vast book. Pieter Mortier (1661-1711; pron. "more-teer" rather than "more-tee-ay") was the son of a French refugee who, after a brief stint in Paris, worked in Amsterdam as an engraver, mapmaker and bookseller; his illustrated bible is one of the great lavish works of engraving. The first item in this Sammelband is a piracy ("contre-façon"): he copied Alexis-Hubert Jaillot's Neptune François chart-by-chart and printed it himself in Amsterdam while claiming it was from Paris. This was quite common on the Continent, especially in Holland, which had much looser copy-right restrictions than other countries. While the Dutch largely dominated the XVIIc market for atlases, Jaillot, who had at his disposal the stock of Nicolas Sanson, was an exception; Mortier's ingenious solution was simply to copy and to undercut him. As we know from contemporary sales-catalogues, the two works bound together in this volume were offered as a set. Most interesting is the way coloration affected price; Mortier charged 44 florins for the two works together uncolored and 84 florins for the "très-belle Enluminure, avec de l'or," very beautifully colored and heightened with gold, as is the present item. This is surely near the very pinnacle of Dutch atlas-production. The volume passed through quite distinguished hands. James Gibbs (1682-1754) was one of Britain's great architects. Saint Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford and Senate House in Cambridge are all his designs. As a Catholic and non-Palladian, he stood apart from his peers in the discipline, both in his style and in his patrons. A catalogue library, in excess of 600 volumes, shows him a distinguished and catholic-minded collector; his superb picture collection perhaps predicts the quality of color in the present example. Of Mr. Jackson we must remain silent, but of the book's final recorded owner -- Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease (1924-2005), 2nd Baron Wardington -- much can be said. He was a book collector of great renown, building a splendid library at his Oxfordshire home, Wardington Manor. His particular interest was the very finest examples of cartography. His sale (Sotheby's London, 10 October 2006, lot 317) was a landmark in the field, and its catalogue practically a reference work in its own right.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Left and right margin perfectly replaced, size (in cm): 20,5 x 30,5 cm, Decorative map of eastern Europe showing Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Dalmatia, Albania, Macedonia and partly Turkey.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: colored, condition: Very good, size (in cm): 46 x 30 cm, City map of Rimini, below title cartouche with index.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Very good, size (in cm): 48 x 58, Map shows Guyenne and Gascogne with Bayonne, Bordeaux and Toulouse.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Perfect condition, size (in cm): 38,5 x 49,5 cm, Map shows Terra d'Otranto with three magnificent heraldic cartouches (coats of arms of the Kingdom of Naples and Terra d'Otranto), a compass rose and two sailing ships. Terra d'Otranto was an ancient administrative unit in southern Italy, today it belongs to Puglia. With typical missing parts (2 corners) at the printing plate.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Perfect condition, size (in cm): 43,5 x 55 cm, Map shows historical Greek Macedonia or Macedonia with compass rose and mileage indicator.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Minor restorations along the orig. outline colours, size (in cm): 47,5 x 60, Map shows the Atlantic with the coast of South America and the caost of the southern part of Africa. From Mortier, Suite du Neptune Francois.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Perfect condition, size (in cm): 38,5 x 49,5 cm, Splendid map showing the province of Foggia in the region of Apulia. Furthermore a title cartouche and a cartouche with the coat of arms of Capitanata, a compass rose and two sailing ships. (Capitanata, created by Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, corresponds to the Daunia of antiquity and the modern province of Foggia). Royal edition, heightened with gold.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Very good, size (in cm): 56 x 82, Map shows the strait of Gibraltar with its sea current.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Very good, size (in cm): 59,5 x 83, chart of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean with Iceland, Greenland, and the Hudson Bay.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Very good, size (in cm): 60 x 80, Map shows the total East Sea with the coasts of Sweden, Finnland, Russia, Estland, Lettland,Lithuania and Poland.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Perfect condition, size (in cm): 49 x 56,5 cm, Map shows Silesia with a plan of Wroclaw and two splendid cartouches.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Break on the center because of oxidation, professional restored, size (in cm): 38 x 49,5 cm, Map shows the Trimetic Islands in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Italy, with many sailing ships, a compass rose and a cartouche with index. This map was originally created by Blaeu in 1662 and then reprinted by Mortier in 1724. The islands include San Domino, Capraia and San Nicola.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Some restoration at lower and upper centerfold, size (in cm): 38 x 49,5 cm, Map shows Potenza in Campania with Naples, Salerno, Torre, Policastro Bussentino, Marsico Nuovo, Campagna, Muro Lucano and many more. Furthermore, two magnificent cartouches with coats of arms and mileage indicator, a compass rose and two sailing ships. Royal edition, heightened with gold, rare.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Perfect condition, size (in cm): 29,5 x 40 cm, The view shows Solemnite du Bucentaure, which is celebrated in Venice on the day of the Ascension. From: Histoire du gouvernement de Venise, avec des notes historiques et politiques par le sieur Amelot de la Houssaie. Tome. 1. Pag. 266. It shows a procession of ships, centred on the Doge's barge, the Bucentaur, passing by the church of San Nicolas de Lido to celebrate the annual ceremony of the "Marriage of the Sea". This ritual, which took place every year on Ascension Day from the Middle Ages until 1789, represented a symbolic link between Venice and the Adriatic Sea and was an affirmation of Venetian naval power. At the end of the ritual, the Doge dropped a ring consecrated by the Pope into the water. The large rowing boat "Bucintoro", here displays the Venetian flag with the Doge and church representatives on a platform at the stern. The other boats include gondolas of various sizes carrying dignitaries, each inscribed with their name, e.g. the gondola of the French ambassador and the gondola of the papal nuncio. Engraver Caspar Luyken, editor Peter Mortier. A version of this card was later reprinted by the successor company Covens and Mortier after Pierre Mortier's death.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Perfect condition, size (in cm): 60,5 x 45 cm, Map shows central Italy, the east of Tuscany with the cities Urbino, Siena, Orvieto, Spoleto, Rome, etc. and a magnificent cartouche. Royal edition, heightened with gold, rare.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Perfect condition, size (in cm): 51 x 60 cm, Decorative and detailed city map of Florence in Tuscany, Italy.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Very good, size (in cm): 60 x 86, Map shows the coast of Irland from Galloway with Naught to Lymerick and Kerry, with inset map of Port Kinsal.